It's not just you
It's easy to assume a dropped connection is a local problem — bad reception, an overloaded tower, a building with thick walls. Often it isn't. Internet monitoring firm ThousandEyes tracked global outage activity through 2026 and found public cloud network outages spiking as much as 72–98% week-on-week at points during the year. Named incidents hit major providers directly: AT&T had three separate outages in September alone; Salesforce had a 4.5-hour outage the same month; Microsoft, Cogent, Cox and Charter all had their own disruptions across the year. These aren't obscure providers — they're the infrastructure most cloud-dependent apps quietly rely on.
What breaks when the cloud does
Most field-capture and note-taking apps assume the network is there. They sync as you go, save to the cloud by default, or need a live connection to even open. When the network — or the app's own backend — goes down, so does your ability to document anything, right when you might need to most: mid-inspection, mid-job, mid-incident.
Offline isn't just for remote work
The obvious cases are the ones already covered elsewhere — underground, in aircraft, on rural properties with no towers nearby. But the outages above didn't happen in remote areas. They happened to ordinary cloud services millions of people use every day, in cities, during business hours. Offline-first isn't just a feature for people working off-grid. It's insurance against infrastructure you don't control failing at a bad moment.
What Preserver does differently
Preserver doesn't need Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or mobile data to capture anything — text, voice, photo or video, all stamped with time, date and GPS the moment you record. Nothing about capturing or viewing your data depends on a connection. You choose if and when to back it up or export it; the app never requires the network to work in the first place.
If your ability to capture a record depends on someone else's infrastructure staying up, it isn't really your record yet.
The short version
Network outages aren't a remote-work edge case anymore — they're a regular event at some of the biggest providers online. Preserver was built so a bad connection day never means a missed capture.
